Durango Food Bank

About the Durango Food Bank

The Durango Food Bank’s mission is to “work[] in collaboration with our community to feed and empower our neighbors in need.” The food bank is a staple resource in La Plata County and has served clients both deeply rooted in our community, as well as clients who are just starting to discover this beautiful corner of Southwest Colorado. We offer our clients a various of food service programs to help assist them in their food needs, as well as offer emergency food supply services. Our success relies heavily on our wonderful and dedicated volunteers, as well as generous donations from community members and businesses.

The Durango Food Bank distributes food to almost 12,000 La Plata County Residents struggling with food insecurity each year. The original mission was to provide enough food to our neighbors so that no one in our community would starve while also being purposeful in not creating dependence. Our current work is to provide reactive emergency assistances, which may include emergency responses to COVID-19, situations where an individual’s or family’s income level puts them above the food assistance qualifying threshold, or where a contributing family member is temporarily unemployed.

Thank you for your interest in joining our team as we continue to work feeding our La Plata County neighbors in need.